A youth convicted for raping a minor girl with whom he had eloped and later married was spared jail term by a city court which said he has “realised his mistake” and sentencing him would “disrupt” his married life.
“The convict is sentenced to the period of imprisonment already gone,” additional sessions judge Virender Bhat said, while observing that the youth himself had come forward to plead guilty so he should be handed a lesser sentence instead of a minimum of seven years for the offence of rape.
“The convict has himself come forward to admit his guilt which implies that his conscience has pricked him and he has realised his mistake. In my opinion, the conduct of the prosecutrix herself in the whole affair, coupled with the accused himself coming forward to plead guilty, showing sense of remorse and respect for the law, constitute special reasons for awarding lesser sentence upon the convict than the prescribed minimum period of seven years,” the court said.
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AAP protest at PM house
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, AUG. 4
Around 40 members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) staged a protest outside Prime Minister’s house at Race Course Road in New Delhi area on Sunday demanding that political parties should be brought under the RTI Act.
ACP (New Delhi) S.B.S. Tyagi said 40 AAP members were detained from outside PM’s residence. They were taken to the the Parliament Street Police Station and were allowed to go home after half an hour.